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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:257176 Archived-At: > > That "=E2=80=A6" char is pretty useless, in general. > > Its appearance has nothing in common with that > > of a real ellipsis, at least when a fixed-width > > font is used. >=20 > FWIW, I've been using "=E2=80=A6" for that ellipsis for a long time now, = and > I use a fixed-width font (misc-fixed-semicondensed) pretty > much everywhere. So obviously my opinion disagrees with yours. >=20 > I did end up using "=E2=80=A6=E2=80=A6" at a few places (mostly for the > outline-minor-mode ellipses), tho, because while I find "..." too long, > "=E2=80=A6" ended up a bit too short for my taste in that case. >=20 > For `truncate-string-to-width` (which is also used to truncate elements > which are significantly shorter than a line's width (contrary to the > outline-minor-mode ellipses) typically in multi-column tabular data), > I found the extra 2 chars very welcome. OK. There's an argument for users to be able to customize the string, beyond just the overall length/width.